Kirk Hallam

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01540KIR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century [basin only] -- 13th century [base only] -- [composite font], Medieval / composite
Cognate Fonts: The font at Osmaston, in the same county, is similar, though not identical
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: 12 Belvoir Cl, Ilkeston DE7 4ND, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 115 783 1793
Site Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A6096, 11-12 km NE of Derby, just SW of Ilkeston
Additional Comments: composite font Norman basin on an Early English base
Font Notes:
Noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as a baptismal font of circular shape, "being ornamented with tracery of semicircular interlaced arches". In Glover (1831) probably after Lysons. Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1881 as a good example of Norman font on "an Early English base, its outer surface being ornamented with interlaced semi-circular arches". Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as one of several Norman tub fonts of characteristic ornamentation in this county. Pevsner (1978): "font [...] Norman, tub-shaped, with an arcade of intersecting arches."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 612959 5869165
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.960183, -1.318292
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 57′ 36.66″ N, 1° 19′ 5.85″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

  • The History and gazetteer of the County of Derby: drawn up from actual observation and from the best authorities [...] the materials collected by the publisher Stephen Glover. Edited by Thomas Noble [...], Derby: Stephen Glover. Printed for the publisher by Henry Mozley and Son, 1831, vol. 1: 258 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=BsoHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA258&lpg=PA258&dq=longford+church+font&source=web&ots=jCQGMd6dVP&sig=OyvQmsiRu54CaIUtbL03se2i358&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result#PPA258,M1] [accessed 22 December 2008]
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 194, 195
  • Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, London: Kelly & Co., 1881, p. 1065
  • Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822, vol. V: p. ccxxiii
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978, p. 27-28, 260